The Road to 40 Day 55/365: Hangovers and Superpowers

Pretty uneventful day, mostly thanks to the super long day yesterday. 

Since I crashed out at 5:30AM, I got up at 11AM already. Vino tapped me to say he was hungry, so I whipped up a quick sandwich for him. 

I couldn’t move much, so we ordered lunch. I got Mang Inasal for us, one of my favorites. Unfortunately, my stomach still won’t accept much food on account of the massive hangover. 

There wasn’t much to do and nothing much I can do, so I sat on the sofa and slept a bit more. 

By 3PM, I at least had the energy to get up and take a bath. That helped get my senses back.

We were heading towards the supermarket. Expenses are piling up if we continue to eat out for every meal, so I thought I should do some cooking. 

Vino said his tablet’s case is broken, because the magnet that helps close the cover doesn’t work anymore. I told him we could buy a new one. He asked what would happen to the current cover if we buy a new one, and I said naturally, we have to throw it away because it serves no purpose. 

Suddenly, he told me that he changed his mind and will just keep using it. 

I thought it’s fine. We can maybe buy some velcro and stick it on there so that it still closes. I asked him to bring it with him as we went out. I could see he had his anxious, sad face on trying to hold tears back. 

I asked if he was ok and he said yes. I asked if he was sad, and he said yes again. When I asked why, some tears fell.

“I have a superpower,” he said. 

“I can feel the emotions of things. That’s why I like to talk to inanimate objects. I know what they’re feeling.”

When he learned that the case would be thrown away, he felt sad about it, so he changed his mind. He thought he had no choice but to throw it away when I asked him to bring the tablet with him.

I explained that we were going to try and fix it, so at least his mood changed after that.

It’s cute that he has this mentality, but it might breed a hoarding mentality. Currently, our house has tons of his toys, and we’ve already let go some of it when we got back last year. Not sure why those toys are not sharing their feelings about not being played with.

But yeah, yesterday was not the day for me to break that to him. I’m happy that he could share his feelings like that. 

We went to buy some groceries like rice, meats, and some seasonings. I was planning to cook beef bulgogi for dinner because a friend of mine might drop by. Even if he did not, I was already set on cooking it, so I prepped the meat. 

It’s supposed to be a quick marinade, but since I don’t have all my tools with me, it took me a while to finely mince the pear and the ginger. I had a kilo of meat ready to be prepared, so I broke it down to two resealable bags and one ready to cook. 

Vino had the regular rice and bulgoi while I had my seasoned gojuchang rice together with it. Che had a dinner out with a couple of colleagues, so she came home late.

I don’t usually message Che when she’s out so she can focus on destressing or whatnot, but it was 11PM already and I had to ask. 

Vino was still awake when she arrived so we got to tell a few stories still. I told her about Vino’s superpower, and I asked him to tell Che what it was. He got a bit shy and told me to just tell her. 

I appreciated the fact that he could tell me about it earlier, even though I felt that he struggled to share it. Maybe there’s a bit of shame about how stupid it might sound, or maybe it’s just that he doesn’t think anyone would understand if he said it out loud. 

Him having to turn his back to Che while I told her about it shows that it’s not one of his proudest moments, but he elaborated when Che responded positively. 

It’s one of the things that I want to encourage now that I have the time to focus on him. I think it’s important that he feels safe sharing things during his formative years, so that when he grows older, he will find us as his safe space. 

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